Writer | Educator | Math Enthusiast
Awards
Leila Abu-Saba Memorial Prize, Mills College, 2019
Melody Clarke Teppola Prize in Creative Writing Fiction (Honorable Mention), 2019
Fred T. Haley Writing Award, UW Tacoma, 2015
Publications
2021
“All the dead things come back to haunt me after you leave” BULL
“Episode” CHEAP POP
2020
“pink flower, white wood” and “a dedication” Watershed Review
“all this blood” & “old gods & men” Poets of Mills College
“Eulogy” Hobart
“On Finding Poetry and Place” Far Villages: Welcome Essays for New and Beginner Poets, Black Lawrence Press (January)
2019
“Mile 183” BULL
“Big Al’s Pet Emporium” Cutbank
“Out on the Lake” Pithead Chapel
“Pain Relief” Microfiction Monday
“On Fullness” Rivet Journal
“Plastic Houses” Punctuate
2018
“For Keeping” Goat’s Milk Magazine
“Spark” Lunch Ticket
“Birth Day” Pacifica Literary Review
2017
“Photo(stream of consciousness) in reverse” & “A Black Wasp Flew Into the Pool” Crab Fat Magazine
“creation” The Fem
2016
“Beauty and Being” The Los Angeles Review, Vol 20
2015
“Spray” & “Carousel Horse” Tahoma West
Education
M.F.A Creative Writing Prose, Mills College, 2020
M.Ed. Secondary Mathematics Education, UCLA, 2016
B.A. Creative Writing, Mathematics Minor, University of Washington, 2015
About
Kari Treese is a writer, educator, and math enthusiast. She’s located in Southern California where she teaches Math and English to high school students. Kari received her MFA in creative writing from Mills College in 2020. She spends her spare time working on a horror novel in progress, hanging out with her two kids, and petting her tiny dog, Syggy. She tweets @karitreese and posts dog photos on Instagram @kari_treese.
Connect
Events
10/9/2021 WAKE UP: Clocks, Clarifications, Calamities &Coming of Age, by Creative Colloquy 7:00 PM
10/29/2019 Works In Progress @ Rothwell Theater, Mills College 5:30 PM
5/12/2019 Flash Fiction @ The Octopus Literary Salon in Oakland, CA 5:00 PM
Rigor and Compassion in the Writing Classroom: “Letter to a Future Writer: Marginalia and Instructor Feedback in College Writing”—December 2018 @ Mills College
Math Enthusiast Speaker Series, University of Washington—January 2017
Tahoma West Issue Release Reading—May 2015
Writing Studies Student Showcase—May 2015
Poetry Flash Mob—April 2015
Dada Artists on Campus—April 2015
Writing for Social Change: One Act Student Plays—December 2014
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